The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1887-03-02
HIGH LICENSE A BLUNDER.

HIGH LICENSE A BLUNDER.
An address Delivered by the Rev. 1.
K. Funk, d. D. IN the Masonic
Temple Neao York City.
The Editor in Chief of The Voice
Reuiea0s Dr.. Howard Crosby's Logic
Before the Manhattan Temperance
Association. Il Great Cro,od, q Great
Occasion, and q Great Speech.
Last Sunday afternoon the great
ball in the Masonic Temple was
crowded by an eager and an expec-
tant audience, who had gathered to
hear DR.. IK.Funk speak on, High
License Blunder." The Speech
WAS an outcome of the open letters
which be and DR.. Howard Crosby
wrote to each other through the
daily papers of this city. The let
ter writing was begun by DR.. Funk
and answered by DR.. Crosby in
The Times, in which paper the let
tiers continued to pass between the
Advocate of High Ruin and the
plumed Knight of Prohibition, as
the New York Herald called the
Doctor.
The Address was delivered be-
fore the Manhattan Temperance
Association, of which J. W. Gibbs
is President. The audience was
great, the occasion was great, and
great was the speech. At the same
hour was being held another great
Temperance meeting in CHECKER
ing hall, which was addressed by
Hon. J no. B. Finch, Gen'l. Clinton
B. Fisk and other notables.
DR.. Funk needs no introduction
Across and up and down this con-
tinent his name is known to
preachers and ministers and
clergymen, and to lovers of litera-
ture, and to Temperance workers
As Editor in Chief of The Voice, of
The Homiletic Review and senior
member of the firm of Funk & Wag-
nails heis known to the workers in
the moral world up and down all
continents. His influence girts
the globe. And as the editor of a
national and international prohi-
bition paper, he is doing a world
wide work for this great crisis of all
historic crisises and this cause of
all historic causes. Imagine
compactly built, fine looking bust
ness-like man, we'll formed head,
iron-gray hair and beard, before
large audience, and listen while he
says: =
Truth is tough" says Holmes:
and it has need to be at the time
reform is coming to the front, es-
pecially if the reform interferes
with the plans of money getters
and of politicians. There is need
just now of clear eye on the part
CT the real enemies of the Saloon !;
not of anger. A well-trained pol
itician never allows his anger to
get above his eyebrows. He fumes,
he froths at the mouth, but his
brain is unruff1ed. At this hour,
above all others, true friends of the
Temperance reform must keep
their anger below the base of their
brains. Now is the time for the
plainest kind of talk, for truth
telling: but not for anger.
1t is proclaimed, vociferated,
that we Prohibitionists are oppos-
ed to all restrictive efforts to stay
the evils that flood from the sa-
looms, DR.. Howard Crosby says
that for ten years the Prohibition
lists have defeated all efforts at
restriction, demanding free whis-
Ky or "total abolition" and, as to-
tai abolition is impracticable in
New York City, that means the
selling of liquor without any re-
straint. The New York Tribune
In its last Fridays issue, sputters
the most violent froth, declaring
that Prohibitionists are in open
alliance with the liquor sellers,
and that we are a mob of crazy fa-
natics who, because we cannot
how ro,o,oo